Charles George Gordon: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Important works on the life and career of Gen. Charles George Gordon include A. Egmont Hake (ed.), The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum (1885, reprinted 1984); Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Gordon at Khartoum, Being a Personal Narrative of Events in Continuation of “A Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt” (1911, reissued 1923); Bernard M. Allen, Gordon and the Sudan (1931); Godfrey Elton (ed.), General Gordon’s Khartoum Journal (1961); Anthony Nutting, Gordon of Khartoum: Martyr and Misfit (1966); John Marlowe, Mission to Khartum: The Apotheosis of General Gordon (1969); and Charles Chenevix Trench, Charley Gordon: An Eminent Victorian Reassessed (1978; also published as The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon, 1979). Gordon is one of four individuals profiled in Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), a somewhat irreverent collection of biographies that was among the first to challenge Gordon’s portrayal as a martyr.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - Charles George Gordon. | Oct 10, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 24, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Independent - Britain's colonial adventures: The truth about Gordon of Khartoum. | Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - General Gordon, the Palestine exploration fund and the origins of 'Gordon's Calvary' in the holy land. | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - General Gordon, the Palestine exploration fund and the origins of 'Gordon's Calvary' in the holy land. | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Weapons and Warfare - The End of General�Gordon. | Jun 06, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - Governor-General Charles Gordon�s Death in Khartoum. | Aug 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - General Charles Gordon: Chinese Gordon, Gordon of Khartoum. | Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The British Empire - Charles George Gordon. | Feb 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - GordonThe Hero of Khartum. | Jan 30, 2020 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 19, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of General Charles Gordon. |
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May 02, 2007 | |
| Article revised. | Mar 12, 2004 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |